Ecology and Environment

Pledges-heightened Campaign to Protect Water Bodies   The Philippine-Misereor Partnership Inc. (PMPI) is extremely worried about the recent coal barge accident in Zambales that devastated a crucial fish sanctuary alongside the catastrophic coal spill in Sorsogon. The MV Katapatan 2,…

Billions of dollars will buy almost anything anybody wants, and on November 5th billions of dollars bought the world’s leading anti-climate-change political administration, aka: the Trump Administration, which is anti-almost-everything, except for a free reign to the almighty market. Price…

“We call on the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to steer away from waste-to-energy schemes as a municipal solid waste management solution and focus more instead on programs that would eliminate waste generation at its origin.” This was the statement…

The year 2023 was the year Millet was declared by none other body than the world-renowned United Nations as the Crop of the Year. Apart from its nutritional values, scientists have discovered that millet doesn’t only reverse diabetes (type II)…

Quezon City  – About 250 people including indigenous peoples (IPs), urban poor organizations, student and youth associations, workers, parish and church members, non-government organizations, fisherfolk, affected residents of Rizal and Quezon areas, and other organized sectors based in Metro Manila…

As the EU’s climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra prepares for his hearing in the European Parliament to reprise his role for the next five years, more than a hundred civil society organisations have written to ask him not to bring fossil…

The 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) on Biodiversity took place in the city of Cali, Colombia, reaching significant agreements in favour of global biodiversity. Significant progress was also made in relevant aspects such as the relationship between human health…

by: Joselyn L. Alicwadey and Lembert C. Lagawed Within the expansion of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) in the Philippines, a wealth of scenic landscapes, vibrant aquatic environments, and rich cultural heritage awaits exploration. Among these treasures, the legendary Inodey…

Overflowing Garbage Bins Observed in Most Cemeteries 2 November 2024, Quezon City.   While pleased with the massive influx of people in cemeteries signifying that the beautiful age-old Undas tradition of remembering our dearly departed ones remains alive, a waste…

A recent Arctic News headline d/d October 4, 2024 refers to one of the most significant climate-related studies this year. It describes in detail the worldwide all-encompassing danger of loss of sea ice: Double Blue Ocean Event, 2025? It demands…